Casting has been announced for the Pearl Theatre Company production of Tony Award winner Michael Frayn's The Sneeze, a theatrical work based on the stories and plays of Anton Chekhov, which will begin previews Sept. 17 at New York City Center Stage II.

Pearl artistic director J.R. Sullivan will direct The Sneeze, which will officially open Sept. 26 and run through Oct. 31. Among Chekhov's comic sketches included in the play are The Bear, The Evils of Tobacco, Swan Song, The Proposal and The Sneeze.

According to the Pearl, "Frayn's richly comic adaptation of the incomparable Chekhov's wild and witty vaudevillian vignettes, bounds across town and country, past rich and poor, with an improbable duel, a mismanaged marriage proposal, and, of course, a life-shattering sneeze along the way."